Memorial to Burge torture victims is about acknowledging pain, healing

Public memorials reflect whom a city chooses to remember. Memorializing ugly historical truths is a chance for public healing. Chicago is reckoning with both. Earlier this month, the city broke ground on a decade-old promise — the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, a permanent structure in the Washington Park neighborhood recognizing survivors of police torture under former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. For 20 years, beginning in 1973, Burge and other police officers at the Area 2 station…